Back in June 2023, Renault announced that its Alpine brand was set to ... starting with the return of the Renault 5. An electric hot hatch based on the rally racing icon of the 1980s sounds ...

As a seedling for some of the most loved and least sane hot hatches ever made, the original Renault 5 was prolific. There was ...

There was still work to be done – the suspension, which had come from the Group 2 Renault 5 Alpine rally car and the Alpine A310, needed to be fine-tuned, more weight had to be lost (aluminium ...

With six wheels, it was said to boast improved road-holding over the standard Renault 5 and ... A silver 6×6 Alpine even took part in the Paris-Dakar Rally. (It didn’t finish, but it did ...

Clearly taking inspiration from the Renault Turbo and Turbo 2 of the 1980s, it wears the same yellow, black and white livery as the car that raced in the infamous Group B rally competition – a ...

The Renault 5 E-Tech and Alpine A290 small electric vehicles will share the 2025 European Car of the Year title. For Renault, it’s the second year in the row it has been honored after the ...

Tarmac ace Jean Ragnotti took the competition car to three Monte Carlo Rally victories and achieved ... turbocharged unit from the earlier Renault 5 Alpine Turbo, but in its new rear-drive ...

While far from absolute confirmation that Alpine is now working on an uprated 3E, Cambolive emphasised how the Renault 5 and Alpine A290 had been considered as one model in the recent European Car ...

To nobody’s great surprise, the other day the Renault 5 and Alpine A290 jointly won the 2025 Car of the Year award (the original and still the best of the big international car awards thingies).

Having won the 2025 European Car of the Year title, alongside its sibling from Renault, the new 5, the Alpine A290 has touched down in the United Kingdom, where the company just opened the order ...